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Solo exhibition
22.01.2021—24.03.2021
Galerie Loevenbruck
Paris, FR

ÉTANT DAMNÉS
Un épisode de La Passion triste, avec Xavier Boussiron
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
With works by: Xavier Boussiron

Is it really useful to point out what this title – literally, Being Damned – refers to? For anyone who knows Étant donnés (Given), Marcel Duchamp’s last work, there can be little doubt about the answer, especially if we bear in mind that I recently wrote a short book about the ‘Salt Seller’.1 Indeed, looking carefully, the analogies with its “de-mountable approximation” are real. But not only that. The Visconti film? Its Italian title, La caduta degli dei, means ‘the fall of the gods’. Consider the word “fall.” It is about that. And the gods, too, in fact. The Internationale? No, although of course the damned, whom the revolutionary chant exhorts to rise up, are among those included in the title. But then who – in this period which is so dark that to me it evokes not only an earthly hell afflicted with a thousand plagues compared to which those of Egypt are small beer indeed, but also a return to the Middle Ages for a human society that the new inquisitors of every stripe are making more unbearable by the day, and that nature’s revolt is threatening as it did in the most terrifying legends of bygone times –, who, I ask you, does not feel damned? In reality, this pessimism imposed by the times, which is conducive to almost delirious fantasies, still banally opposes Good and Evil. A duo as old as the world. Which can perhaps be heard in the title: étant damnés = “et tant d’années” [and so many years]. 

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Installation view, Arnaud Labelle–Rojoux, ÉTANT DAMNÉS An episode from La Passion triste, with Xavier Boussiron, galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, 2021.

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© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Installation view, Arnaud Labelle–Rojoux, ÉTANT DAMNÉS An episode from La Passion triste, with Xavier Boussiron, galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, 2021.

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Installation view, Arnaud Labelle–Rojoux, ÉTANT DAMNÉS An episode from La Passion triste, with Xavier Boussiron, galerie Loevenbruck, Paris, 2021.

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© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Xavier Boussiron
​Los Confinados, 2020

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 © ADAGP, Paris, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Good Night, Sweet Dreams, 2020

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57 1/16 x122 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Série Étant Damnés. Sans titre, 2020

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Acrylic and gouache on paper
16 9/16 × 12 5/8 × 1 3/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Dada Chounette, 2020

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27 15/16 × 30 5/16 × 11 13/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Dada Chounette, 2020

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27 15/16 × 30 5/16 × 11 13/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Série Étant Damnés. Sans titre, 2020

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Acrylic and gouache on paper
16 9/16 × 12 5/8 × 1 3/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Help !, 2020

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Mixed media
91 3/4 × 31 1/2 × 39 3/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Help !, 2020

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Mixed media
91 3/4 × 31 1/2 × 39 3/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Série Étant Damnés. Sans titre, 2020

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Acrylic and gouache on paper
16 9/16 × 12 5/8 × 1 3/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Loup de rigueur, 2020

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18 7/8 × 39 3/8 × 14 9/16 in ; (socle) 20 1/16 × 31 1/2 × 39 3/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Série Étant Damnés. Sans titre, 2020

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Acrylic and gouache on paper
12 5/8 × 16 9/16 × 1 3/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Ils te crèveront les yeux (cria cuervos), 2020

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51 3/16 × 27 9/16 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Ils te crèveront les yeux (cria cuervos), 2020

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51 3/16 × 27 9/16 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Série Étant Damnés. Sans titre, 2020

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Acrylic and gouache on paper
16 9/16 × 12 5/8 × 1 3/16 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Zzzzzzzzzz !, 2020

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Mixed media
34 1/4 × 17 3/4 × 13 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Ave, 2020

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31 1/2 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Does it have a soul?, 2020

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31 1/2 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Alas poor Porky, 2020

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31 1/2 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Nécro 2020, 2020

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38 3/16 × 30 5/16 in each
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Puis elle se mit à danser..., 2020

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Mixed media
64 3/16 × 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.

Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
Puis elle se mit à danser..., 2020

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Mixed media
64 3/16 × 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 in
Courtesy galerie Loevenbruck, Paris
© ADAGP, Paris. Photo Fabrice Gousset, courtesy Loevenbruck, Paris.